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  3. What do you do when you want to learn the meaning of a 【C1】______ word? If you’re 【C2】______ most people, you do one of two th

What do you do when you want to learn the meaning of a 【C1】______ word? If you’re 【C2】______ most people, you do one of two th

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问题    What do you do when you want to learn the meaning of a 【C1】______  word? If you’re 【C2】______  most people, you do one of two things. You ask someone to tell you the word’s meaning, or you look 【C3】______  the word in a dictionary.
   The fact that you can look up words in a dictionary can be 【C4】______  to a man named Noah Webster. He produced the first dictionary of American English.
    Noah Webster was a person who 【C5】______  words. He was born in West Hartford, Connecticut in 1758. Webster studied at Yale and later became a teacher and a writer.
   In 1782 Webster was teaching at an elementary school in Goshen, New York. He saw that the schoolbooks he was using left 【C6】______  something he felt was important. The books Webster 【C7】______  to use in his teaching came from England. These books were just 【C8】______  for teaching English children. But they paid no 【C9】______  to American culture. Remember, the United States had only just 【C10】______  its independence from England. Americans still educated their children the same way the British 【C11】______  . Noah Webster wanted to give his students an education that was strongly 【C12】______ .
   In writing his first dictionary, Webster was preparing for something grander. He had become familiar 【C13】______ many different languages. He felt it was helpful and important to know where words came from their 【C14】______  . He traveled in England and France 【C15】______  research on the histories of English words.
   In 1807 he began to work on An American Dictionary of the English Language. Webster was seventy years old when he published the first 【C16】______  of this important work in 1828.
   Webster wrote the dictionary completely 【C17】______  hand. In those days people didn’t have ballpoint pens, much 【C18】______  typewriters. He had to use a quill pen, which was a feather with its thickest end 【C19】______  into a point. This point was dipped in a bottle of ink in order to write. A writer using a quill pen had to dip the pen constantly to 【C20】______  the ink.  
【C12】______
选项 A、England
B、American
C、different
D、independent
答案B
解析 根据前面一句的意思可推断出此含义。
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